After Freud: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory

Second Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2022-23, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Julie Wood, MA

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January 6, 2023 — London: Early middle school

[33 pages]

The best efforts at détente in the British Society produced a training program that was more or less evenly split between teaching from a Kleinian perspective and an Anna Freudian perspective.  As part of this compromise, candidates had to also have at least one supervisor who was not aligned with either side – someone from the ‘middle group.’  The name stuck (later changed to “Independent Group”).  Of these folks, Winnicott is one of the more widely known.  Sharpe is lesser known, but with a lively, unique teaching voice on learning analysis.

Winnicott, D.W. (1969) The Use of an Object. IJP, 50:711-716.

Sharpe, E.F. (1930). The Technique of Psycho-Analysis, International Journal of Psycho-Anal., 11:251-277.